Hi @MrMark1960 ... little late to this post but just gonna leave this here as an FYI to the future:  Sooo... a little bit of context for why this happens... Keyframed properties that get added to the Essential Graphics Panel as a control, lose their animation on export to Mogrt land because the control can only represent 1 value at a time. Keyframed properties by nature have multiple values so it's not technically possible for that 1 control to change values over time. The control in PR can only tell Tiny Inception AE (nested inside Premiere Pro to make Mogrts work) "make this Opacity 60" ... it can't tell Tiny Inception AE, "make the opacity go from 20 - 60 in 3 seconds from time 1 to time 4." Its a bummer for sure, but a blessing for a lot of Motion Designers that don't want their animations messed with by editors.  Its definitely a highly requested feature though and I will update the community if and when there are updates on this front.    Thanks!  Dacia ... View more

In the past any effects, animations, or transitions that you could create in AE had to include the final media that an editor might use in PR if they were to be packaged in a Mogrt. Lets run through a few use cases that led to this feature...users wanted to be able to create a Mogrt with a rad set of effects like Chromatic Aberration or Glitch, and they wanted the Mogrt to act like an adjustment layer on video tracks in Premiere. This approach isn't really possible given how the app engines have to communicate with one another, so now editors in PR can simply drag and drop the media they want into the Mogrt itself and voila! all the AE Magic is applied to that content. (The Mogrt has to be exported with the new Media Replacement Controls from AE.) Another use case is for folks who use images or logos in lower-thirds-- like in Sportsball Broadcasts. Instead of having to render out a lower-third for each player with the correct image / video-- the editor can apply the Media Replacement Mogrt in the timeline as many times as needed and swap out the image from within PR just as easily as they can edit text in a Mogrt to customize.    Lastly, I think about animated titles like Parks and Recs or the rad split-screen transitions in Homeland. You can make a Mogrt with all of the fancy motion and smooth styling with placeholder media in AE, and then bounce over to PR to drop clips in and play with which clips go into the "look" with simple drag and drops and tweaking in the NLE.  There are SOOO many possibilities! Let us know what you think once you take it for a spin 🙂    Cheers, Dacia ... View more

Its true... an adjustment layer INSIDE a Mogrt will not work on a video track OUTSIDE the Mogrt in PR. Tiny Inception AE nested within Premiere to render Mogrts can't "see" what's outside the Mogrt.  The ability to feed the Mogrt custom media so that Adjustment Layers and Effects from within the Mogrt will apply to the footage is currently the most requested feature. I can't really say more than that 😉 but to say that we're LISTENING. I will have more news for you in the coming months that will bring joy to Mogrtlandia.    For now, you have to pack the footage in the Mogrt itself... which is not ideal. But you could hook up a couple of media options to a Dropdown Expression Control and give your editor a couple of options to choose from.    Cheers, Dacia ... View more

Hi All,  I finally was able to reproducce a corrupt Mogrt on a Mac and learned that it fails for a completely different reason than the "Mogrt is Corrupt" issues we were seeing on Windows.  After unzipping the mogrt and trying to open it I realized that the unzipping process was not happening. The .Zip folder was turning into a. CPGZ file instead everytime I tried to open it. And clicking the .CPGZ file to try to "open" it just created yet another .Zip file and on and on in an endless loop. So in this case the "Mogrt is Corrupt" error is valid. The Mogrt IS corrupt without the ability to unzip the contents of the .zip folders where the .aep lives.    After doing a bit of google sleuthing, it looks like Mac's can get into this state when a zipped file (that is what a Mogrt is) doesn't download correctly. Sometimes, a download says is complete but really it only downloaded 99% of it. Or it may be that the file needs to be downloaded from another Browser.   I re-downloaded a copy of the Stock Mogrt that was giving me trouble from a different source and it worked! It also somehow fixed the one I was having an issue with.   Here is a link that I found with some workarounds: https://osxdaily.com/2013/02/13/open-zip-cpgz-file/ I think the best thing to do is re-export or re-download the file and try again.   And here is another article about this. https://osxtips.net/cpgz-file-on-mac/     Hope this helps!  Dacia ... View more